Lonely Town Chords by Stan Ridgway

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_ _ [Bb] _ _ [Eb] It's a [Db] lonely town.
_ [Bb] _ _ [Eb] _ They [Ab] all say _ [Bb] that it's [Eb] a [Db] lonely town.
_ [Bb] _ _ _ [F] Wide open spaces, [Eb] _ [Db] empty rooms.
[Eb] If the weather [Fm] holds out, you could [Db] get there by noon.
[Eb] Shadows [Db] crawl on [Eb] the highway [Db] line.
[Eb] Don't [Db]
rush, you got time.
[G] _ [Dm] Pull into a donut shop [G] and [Dm] get a cup of mud.
_ _ [G] _ [Ab] Ask for directions from a plumber outside.
[Bb] He [Fm] says, don't [Bb] go there bud.
_ [Eb] Cause they [Ab] all say _ _ [Gb] that [Eb] it's a [Db] lonely town.
_ [Bb] _ _ [Eb] And they [Ab] all say _ _ [Gb] that [Eb] it's a drag.
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_ _ _ [Bbm] _ [Eb] And they [Ab] all know _ [Gb] those people [Eb] in a [Db] lonely town.
[Bb] All _ _ [Eb] _ [Ab] those _ _ people are [Eb] lonely and [Bb] mad.
_ _ _ _ [Eb] _ Now I got my foot on the gas.
_ [Eb] As I'm crossing [Db] the Midwest County line.
_ [Bb] And I think about [Db] those mosquitoes on my windshield.
_ [Bb] How they don't give a [Ab] damn about [Db] Christmas time.
[G] And as the [Dm] passing trucks all flash their lights.
[G] Just as [Dm]
I top the hill.
_ [Bb] I'll remember [Fm]
two green eyes and some [Bb] flowers.
[D] Dying [Bb] on a window sill.
[Eb] They [Ab] all say _ _ [Gb] that [Eb] it's a [Db] lonely town.
_ [Bb] _ _ [Eb] And they [Ab] all say _ _ [Eb] that it's a drag.
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_ [F] _ _ [Bb] _ _ [Eb] They [Ab] all know [Gb] those people [Eb] in a [Db] lonely town.
_ [Bb] _ _ [Eb] And all [Ab] those _ _ people are [Eb] lonely and mad.
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They're just [Eb] lonely and mad [Ab] in Lonely _ [Gb] _ _ [Eb] _ _ [Db]
Town.
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